Seasons 'no murder jamjar' AU PSL
Nov. 21st, 2022 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silentscout[He wants to go home.
School sucks. It sucks!!! Lalli hasn't been in school since the second grade, why does he need to go to school? He can read, sort of! He can do enough math to get by! Languages...it's fine, there's a translation effect at this magical school! And everything else? Art, history, science? He doesn't need any of it to be a scout. None of this is helping him. It's useless to him.
Equally useless is the fact that he has an obnoxious roommate who stays in their shared room all the time and makes it impossible for Lalli to even think. So, he's out of there. All he takes with him is his backpack of school things (which are not at all school things) and the clothes on his back (the dumb school uniform plus his less dumb oversized sweater) as he wanders around campus looking for a quiet spot to sit and depression nap his evening away.
Unfortunately, there aren't really any quiet spots to be found. The library is full of studying students, the various nooks and crannies of the campus have different study groups going, and Lalli doesn't dare go near the sororities and fraternities. So instead he ends up on the second floor of some building he doesn't go to normally, and that's where he spies what he thinks is an open couch for him to curl up on.
But it's not open. It's just that Lalli can't see its occupant from his approaching angle. And both said occupant and Lalli himself are in for a surprise, because Lalli is totally jumping right over the back of the couch to try and land on the seat sitting. He might end up setting on or immediately next to someone else though.]
School sucks. It sucks!!! Lalli hasn't been in school since the second grade, why does he need to go to school? He can read, sort of! He can do enough math to get by! Languages...it's fine, there's a translation effect at this magical school! And everything else? Art, history, science? He doesn't need any of it to be a scout. None of this is helping him. It's useless to him.
Equally useless is the fact that he has an obnoxious roommate who stays in their shared room all the time and makes it impossible for Lalli to even think. So, he's out of there. All he takes with him is his backpack of school things (which are not at all school things) and the clothes on his back (the dumb school uniform plus his less dumb oversized sweater) as he wanders around campus looking for a quiet spot to sit and depression nap his evening away.
Unfortunately, there aren't really any quiet spots to be found. The library is full of studying students, the various nooks and crannies of the campus have different study groups going, and Lalli doesn't dare go near the sororities and fraternities. So instead he ends up on the second floor of some building he doesn't go to normally, and that's where he spies what he thinks is an open couch for him to curl up on.
But it's not open. It's just that Lalli can't see its occupant from his approaching angle. And both said occupant and Lalli himself are in for a surprise, because Lalli is totally jumping right over the back of the couch to try and land on the seat sitting. He might end up setting on or immediately next to someone else though.]
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Date: 2022-11-28 04:45 am (UTC)[Whatever it is, he doesn't know, but Mandricardo finds he goes along with the flow anyways. He's too timid to speak up about it, and...well. Maybe it was better to just hang around at classes and not have to worry about showing himself as an utter failure in actual battle. It isn't all too bad. Some classes are hard, and of course for an introvert like him its difficult to socialize, but there are spots here on campus he can rest and not have to worry about being around others. Like here, on this couch. He closes his eyes, glad to have a chance to relax, unwind, be by himself, and-]
-!!! OW!
[SOMEONE JUST LANDED RIGHT ON HIM?!?!?!?!?!?!!]
[Mandricardo flails a bit, shocked and disoriented, trying to push whoever used him as a new cushion next to him on the couch.]
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Date: 2022-11-28 05:09 am (UTC)Lalli blinks a couple times in surprise at that quick turn of events, and then he looks up to Mandricardo.]
...oh. Someone's there.
[Lalli should probably apologize, but he's not yet.]
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Date: 2022-11-30 05:28 am (UTC)Damn RIGHT someone's there!!
[He's still trying to collect himself, before he realizes just who he pushed onto the floor. Wait. This is........................his fellow introvert. At least, that's how Mandricardo has labeled him. They've barely talked, but he can see and feel another person who's unwilling to deal with society like him. A kindred spirit.]
[His surprised look moves to something more sheepish.]
...Can you, like, warn me next time before you do something like that?
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Date: 2022-11-30 12:29 pm (UTC)Or, well. He's USUALLY not loud. Unless startled, it seems. Lalli is frowning a little, but he doesn't complain this time because it really is his fault this happened, he should have looked first. Not that he will admit to that out loud, but he knows his part in all of this.]
No. I'll just sit not on you.
[Yeah. Yeah that's how it is.
Speaking of which, he'll pick himself up off the ground and move to a spot on the couch where Mandi is not currently sitting. If the entire couch is still occupied, then he'll climb up and sit on the back of the couch like an animal might.]
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Date: 2022-12-03 05:03 am (UTC)[Honestly, what was he expecting? For the guy to leave? He had a right to this couch as much as he did. When Lalli scrambles up to the arch of the couch, though, Mandricardo stammers.]
N-No, hey, look... [And he shifts to lean on the arm, making space.] You can sit with me if you want. You don't need to sit up there.
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Date: 2022-12-04 02:53 am (UTC)He does perch on the back of the couch at first, but when Mandricardo makes room for him he'll move to sit down in the open space now. It's much more comfortable this way, yep. And after a couple seconds of sitting there, he'll finally look at Mandricardo again and actually look at him, like he's noticing the man for real this time.]
...who are you?
[Not the most polite way to ask for Mandi's name, but.]
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Date: 2022-12-12 04:24 am (UTC)....Um.
[THAT'S A BIG QUESTION TO ASK UP FRONT!!!! Actually. No. Wait. That's not a big question at all. Get it together-!]
[Mandricardo swallows - its hard for him to keep direct eye contact, but he does his best, glancing at him almost sheepishly from the side like the guy might try to attack him if he says something wrong.]
M...Mandricardo. Nice to meet ya, I guess. And....who are you?